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БАШНЯ в Таро

Богадельня, The Tower, The Thunderbolt
Карта Таро «Башня» — один из самых мощных и драматичных Арканов Старшей колоды.

В системе Таро она имеет номер XVI и следует за «Дьяволом»,
логически продолжая тему освобождения, но уже через резкое разрушение ложных конструкций. Если «Дьявол» показывает добровольные цепи и иллюзии зависимости, то «Башня» разрушает эти иллюзии внезапно и бесповоротно.

Это карта кризиса, но кризиса очищающего. Она символизирует крушение старых убеждений, разрушение искусственных структур и обнажение истины. «Башня» редко действует мягко — её энергия молниеносна. Однако за внешней драматичностью всегда стоит глубокий смысл: освобождение через разрушение того, что больше не соответствует реальности.

«Башня» — это удар молнии, который пробуждает. Это внезапное осознание, которое невозможно игнорировать. Это момент, когда старый фундамент оказывается непрочным, и приходится строить заново.
карта Таро БАШНЯ
Occult explanations attached to this card are meagre and mostly disconcerting. It is idle to indicate
that it depicts min in all its aspects, because it bears this evidence on the surface. It is said further
that it contains the first allusion to a material building, but I do not conceive that the Tower is
more or less material than the pillars which we have met with in three previous cases. I see nothing
to warrant Papus in supposing that it is literally the fall of Adam, but there is more in favour of his
alternative--that it signifies the materialization of the spiritual word. The bibliographer Christian
imagines that it is the downfall of the mind, seeking to penetrate the mystery of God. I agree rather
with Grand Orient that it is the ruin of the House of We, when evil has prevailed therein, and
above all that it is the rending of a House of Doctrine. I understand that the reference is, however,
to a House of Falsehood. It illustrates also in the most comprehensive way the old truth that
"except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it."
There is a sense in which the catastrophe is a reflection from the previous card, but not on the side
of the symbolism which I have tried to indicate therein. It is more correctly a question of analogy;
one is concerned with the fall into the material and animal state, while the other signifies
destruction on the intellectual side. The Tower has been spoken of as the chastisement of pride and
the intellect overwhelmed in the attempt to penetrate the Mystery of God; but in neither case do
these explanations account for the two persons who are the living sufferers. The one is the literal
word made void and the other its false interpretation. In yet a deeper sense, it may signify also the
end of a dispensation, but there is no possibility here for the consideration of this involved
question.
Arthur Edward Waite
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910)